Title: Remove Continue reading text&#8230;
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove Continue reading text…

 *  [intcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcon/)
 * (@intcon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/)
 * Hi all…I’m making a WP website, and want the blog page to be a series of announcements–
   showing only the title that links to a page with the full announcement. If I 
   use the MORE button, it has extra space after the post title, and then says “
   continue reading….” I found where to remove that in the functions.php page, although
   I’m not quite sure what all to remove as I don’t want the space there either.
 *     ```
       function theme_get_content($args = array()) {
       	$more_tag = theme_get_array_value($args, 'more_tag', __('Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', THEME_NS));
       	theme_ob_start();
       	the_content($more_tag);
       	$content = theme_ob_get_clean();
       	return $content . wp_link_pages(array(
       				'before' => '<p><span class="page-navi-outer page-navi-caption"><span class="page-navi-inner">' . __('Pages', THEME_NS) . ': </span></span>',
       				'after' => '</p>',
       				'link_before' => '<span class="page-navi-outer"><span class="page-navi-inner">',
       				'link_after' => '</span></span>',
       				'echo' => 0
       			));
       ```
   
 * Or is there an easier way to show all the post titles on the blog page and have
   them link to that particular post?
 * thanks, hopefully it isn’t too confusing of a question
 * carrie

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 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341909)
 * What theme are you using? You could try just putting a return; as the first line
   of the function. That will tell you for sure what exactly the function is returning.
 *  Thread Starter [intcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcon/)
 * (@intcon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341918)
 * It’s a custom theme….
 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341923)
 * Ok, have you tried contacting the developer or just killing the function on the
   first line (add `return;`)? That might not even be the correct function but it’s
   an easy way to find out.
 *  Thread Starter [intcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcon/)
 * (@intcon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341925)
 * I would just add that code before the
    function theme_get_content line?
 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341927)
 * Return needs to be added inside a function, otherwise it will throw a parse error.
   But this function might be used in more than one place, you may need to look 
   at hiring someone for an hour or something if the theme is not publicly available
   for people to examine.
 *     ```
       function theme_get_content($args = array()) {
               return;
       	$more_tag = theme_get_array_value($args, 'more_tag', __('Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', THEME_NS));
       	theme_ob_start();
       	the_content($more_tag);
       	$content = theme_ob_get_clean();
       	return $content . wp_link_pages(array(
       				'before' => '<p><span class="page-navi-outer page-navi-caption"><span class="page-navi-inner">' . __('Pages', THEME_NS) . ': </span></span>',
       				'after' => '</p>',
       				'link_before' => '<span class="page-navi-outer"><span class="page-navi-inner">',
       				'link_after' => '</span></span>',
       				'echo' => 0
       			));
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [intcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcon/)
 * (@intcon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341939)
 * lol….ok, that’s apparently the wrong place to do that….everything on the front
   page disappeared and it made no difference to the posts with the “more” code.
   I’ll keep looking.
    thanks!
 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341941)
 * Well that sucks. Can you put the code of the blog template in a pastebin or something?
 *  Thread Starter [intcon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intcon/)
 * (@intcon)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341971)
 * I found this website
    [http://digwp.com/2010/01/wordpress-more-tag-tricks/](http://digwp.com/2010/01/wordpress-more-tag-tricks/)
 * and fixed my more problem …thanks so much for trying Andrew!! much appreciated…
   =)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-continue-reading-text/#post-4341971)
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